Agile Course Syllabus

Agile Project Communications

• Introduction
• Agile Information radiator
• Agile Team space
• Agile tooling
• Osmotic communications for collocated teams
• Osmotic communications for distributed teams

Planning, Monitoring and Adopting

• Introduction
• Agile Retrospectives
• Agile task and Kanban boards,
• Agile Timeboxing
• Agile Iteration and release planning
• Agile WIP limits
• Agile Burn down/up charts

Agile Estimation

• Introduction
• Agile relative sizing/story points
• Agile wide band Delphi
• Agile planning poker
• Agile affinity estimating
• Agile ideal time

Agile Analysis and Design

• Introduction
• Agile product roadmap
• Agile user stories and backlog
• Agile story maps
• Agile progressive elaboration
• Agile wireframes

Product Quality

• Agile frequent verification and validation
• Agenda for the session
• Agile test first development
• Agile acceptance test-driven development

Soft Skills Negotiation

• Introduction
• Agile emotional intelligence
• Agile collaboration
• Agile adaptive leadership
• Agile negotiation
• Agile conflict resolution

Value-Based Prioritization

• Introduction
• Agile return on investment (ROI)
• Agile net present value (NPV)
• Agile internal rate of return (IRR)
• Agile compliance
• Agile customer-valued prioritization

Risk Management

• Introduction
• Agile risk-adjusted backlog
• Agile risk burn down graphs
• Agile risk-based spike

Agile Metrics

• Introduction
• Agile velocity
• Agile cycle time
• Agile earned value management (EVM) for agile projects

Agile Value Stream Analysis

• Introduction
• Agile value stream mapping
• Agile Flow charts
• Agile Spaghetti Diagrams

Agile Knowledge and Skills

• Introduction
• Active listening
• Agile Manifesto values and principles
• Assessing and incorporating community and stakeholder values
• Agile Brainstorming techniques
• Building empowered teams
• Coaching and mentoring within teams
• Agile Communications management
• Feedback techniques for product (e.g., prototyping, simulation, demonstrations, evaluations)
• Incremental delivery
• Agile Knowledge sharing
• Agile Leadership tools and techniques
• Prioritization
• Agile Problem-solving strategies, tools, and techniques
• Project and quality standards for Agile projects
• Stakeholder management
• Agile Team motivation
• Time, budget, and cost estimation
• Value-based decomposition and prioritization
• Agile frameworks and terminology
• Building high-performance teams
• Agile Business case development
• Collocation (geographic proximity)/distributed teams
• Agile Continuous improvement processes
• Elements of a project charter for an Agile project
• Agile Facilitation methods
• Agile Participatory decision models (e.g., input-based, shared collaboration, command)
• PMI’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct Process analysis techniques Self assessment
• Value-based analysis Mini – Exam (Self evaluated, Instructor analysis follows Agile contracting methods)